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Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: He Everybody's almost Famous podcast. We are here today celebrating,

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Speaker 2: as we have been celebrating, the upcoming premiere January twenty seventh,

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Speaker 2: of Grant season of the Bachelor, and we have Grant

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Speaker 2: with us today.

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Speaker 3: Grant, Hello, what's going on?

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Speaker 4: Man? How you doing?

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Speaker 3: I'm so good.

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Speaker 2: Hey, We're gonna dive into it because we are on

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Speaker 2: a time crunch and You've got a lot of people

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Speaker 2: to talk to today, so I'm just gonna jump right in.

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Speaker 3: Is that okay?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's cool with me.

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Speaker 2: All right, So we're gonna start with this. Are you

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Speaker 2: happy how the season went? Obviously we sit here now

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Speaker 2: getting ready for the premiere. There's a lot to still happen.

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Speaker 2: But as you sit here, are you happy of how

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Speaker 2: this whole process went on?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I'm really happy. I'm extremely happy with how everything went.

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Speaker 5: The whole season was like a big therapy session for me, honestly,

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Speaker 5: you know, with my family and the ladies and everything

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Speaker 5: that happened. It was it was great and I'm extremely happy.

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Speaker 2: A big therapy session. Now, let me push back on

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Speaker 2: that a little bit. I've been through this process. I

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Speaker 2: get what you're saying. I actually I do one hundred

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Speaker 2: percent understand what you're saying. I'm not coming against you here,

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Speaker 2: but I think listeners may hear that and they say, wait,

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Speaker 2: this is a dating show, and the lead of this show,

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Speaker 2: Who's Ready for Marriage, took you know, the therapy part

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Speaker 2: of this as the biggest highlight. I'm sure there's some

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Speaker 2: other things that stood out to you outside of just

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Speaker 2: you know, working through some stuff.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, of course.

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Speaker 5: Well, with me not giving away too much, you know,

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Speaker 5: there was some you know, my family was involved, and

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Speaker 5: the women were involved, and there were so many.

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Speaker 4: Intricate relationships throughout the course of.

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Speaker 5: The season that I learned a lot about myself and

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Speaker 5: I'm sure that the ladies did too. And in relationships

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Speaker 5: and love, I think that you learn about yourself. So yeah,

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Speaker 5: when I say a therapy session, it was me rekindling

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Speaker 5: with my dad. It was me learning what really makes

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Speaker 5: me me and what really makes.

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Speaker 4: These women themselves.

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Speaker 5: And then time that all together and involving romance is

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Speaker 5: something that is a really cool experience.

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Speaker 2: It is a time in our life I think some

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Speaker 2: of the most growth can be done. How is that

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Speaker 2: different than your time on the Bachelorette. You know, obviously

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Speaker 2: that was a I look back on that time too,

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Speaker 2: and that you know, had a lot of healing, a

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Speaker 2: lot of introspection. The leads different, So how did the

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Speaker 2: two compare.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's totally different because when you're on the side

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Speaker 5: where you're one of the contestants, you're not telling your story.

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Speaker 5: You are, honestly you're living through the lens of somebody

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Speaker 5: else and you're trying to have a relationship kind of

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Speaker 5: on their terms. When you're the lead, everything is happening

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Speaker 5: on your terms. But also as a lead, you have

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Speaker 5: to be very conscious that these stories are also the

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Speaker 5: lady stories, so you have to balance both and there's

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Speaker 5: a lot more responsibility on your part. So there's a

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Speaker 5: big difference, but also there's some similarities because, like I said,

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Speaker 5: it's involving love and that's the that's the common that's

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Speaker 5: the common ground.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of a whirlwind, right, I mean, you

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Speaker 2: I think the best leads listen. Well, so how did

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Speaker 2: you prepare for this leading up to obviously that first

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Speaker 2: night which we're going to watch, As I said January

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Speaker 2: twenty seventh, how did you prepare for that evening?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, just honestly.

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Speaker 5: Well, luckily, my sister and my mom loved to talk,

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Speaker 5: and I've been growing up being a listener, so that's

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Speaker 5: something that has been.

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Speaker 4: Something I didn't have to prepare for.

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Speaker 5: And you know, I really care about people, and I

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Speaker 5: was you know, I was single for a long time,

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Speaker 5: so I know what it takes. And prior to me

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Speaker 5: I know what it takes for to make a relationship last.

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Speaker 4: And a big part of that is listening and understanding.

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Speaker 5: So it is a little different and special because there's

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Speaker 5: multiple people, but each person has their own story and

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Speaker 5: listening to that and finding, like I said, a common

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Speaker 2: Yeah, during you know, my time, I found it unexpected.

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Speaker 2: But one of the biggest gifts was what you just said.

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Speaker 2: Hearing so many different people's stories, it opens up you know,

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Speaker 2: you kind of have this worldview education and in just

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Speaker 2: handle that? How did you compartmentalize and process as relationships grew?

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Speaker 2: And then also obviously the breakups are a big part

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Speaker 2: that are from the depths of people's souls and then

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Speaker 2: know that maybe that same week you're gonna have to

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Speaker 2: say goodbye to them.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that was the hardest part, saying goodbye after hearing

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Speaker 5: what people have been through and their stories and how

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Speaker 5: it kind of affected them. But at the same time,

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Speaker 5: everybody has a story, and when you're dating for marriage,

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Speaker 5: you have to find what fits you best. So in

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Speaker 5: the back of my mind, I knew that it wasn't personal.

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Speaker 5: It wasn't something that you know, just because this person

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Speaker 5: didn't make it that they weren't good enough. It's just

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Speaker 5: I'm one person and I'm looking for a relationship with

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Speaker 5: one person. So at the end of that, I think that,

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Speaker 5: like I said, even the ladies that I got sent home,

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Speaker 5: they learned about themselves and you know, just just by

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Speaker 5: So yeah, just I handled it and navigated through it,

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Speaker 5: just knowing that this is what it takes for me

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Speaker 5: to find my person.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of you finding your person, the rumors have been

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Speaker 2: swirling and even the host of the show, Jesse Palmer,

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Speaker 2: has teased this a little bit. You know again, I

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Speaker 2: know you're not going to tell me how this ends

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Speaker 2: and who you ended up with or if you ended

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Speaker 2: up with anybody, or whatever however this played out. But

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Speaker 2: the word used to describe the end of your season

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Speaker 2: was that you were indecisive. That isn't exactly the word

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Speaker 2: I would want to be put on me as the

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Speaker 2: season starts. So can you elaborate on that? Explain that

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Speaker 2: and what does he mean by that?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a big word.

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Speaker 5: I'm very decisive in what I do, and when it

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Speaker 5: comes to the matters of the heart, emotion is involved.

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Speaker 4: So not that I was indecisive.

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Speaker 5: I think that the woman and the ladies that were

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Speaker 5: presented during the season were so wonderful and they brought

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Speaker 4: Difficult to send some of these women home.

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Speaker 5: So in the end, right, I made the decision that

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Speaker 5: was best for me, and there was no indecisiveness. It's

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Speaker 5: just that when you're dealing with the lack of time,

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Speaker 5: plus multiple people that you're dating, plus the stakes of

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Speaker 5: the show, you need to take a beat and take

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Speaker 5: a little more time to make a decision.

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Speaker 2: You know I'm going to ask this question because it's

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Speaker 2: the sword I fell on, and I really don't know

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Speaker 2: how yours ends. You know, obviously I was known for

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Speaker 2: saying I love you to multiple people.

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Speaker 3: It was a big issue at the time.

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Speaker 2: Could you claim or say to me, did you fall

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I think that, especially when you're dating multiple people, it

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Speaker 5: is very possible to develop feelings and to fall in

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Speaker 5: love with multiple people. Now, when you say it, you

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Speaker 5: have to mean it, and I know that that's something

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Speaker 5: that most people aren't really gonna understand. Right, It's not

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Speaker 5: every day that you fall in love with or that

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Speaker 5: you date multiple people. So and there's different levels to love,

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Speaker 5: you know, there's different there's different levels to love. You

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Speaker 5: can love somebody and know that they're not for you.

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Speaker 5: But when you spend you know, intricate moments and you

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Speaker 5: have memories and you go on these extravagant dates, you

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Speaker 5: do fall And that's something that the audience maybe they

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Speaker 5: will maybe they won't understand. But at the end of

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Speaker 5: the day, choosing who's for you requires several different factors.

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Speaker 5: It's they have to fit your lifestyle, they have to

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Speaker 5: fit what you're looking for and you could still love

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Speaker 2: So yeah, so the answer that I mean, I think

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Speaker 2: you would say, yes, you fell in love with multiple people,

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Speaker 2: for you in the end, and that's a whole different

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Speaker 2: type of consideration. Now, going off of that a little bit,

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Speaker 2: there also are rumors out there that your season maybe

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Speaker 2: does an end unlike any season we've ever seen before,

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Speaker 2: but maybe the process to the ending is unlike anything

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Speaker 5: I think every season is unique, but there's definitely unique

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Speaker 4: And I don't know.

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Speaker 5: If I haven't seen I haven't seen all the seasons,

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Speaker 5: but I do know that it's very unique and that

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Speaker 5: it's exciting.

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Speaker 2: It's exciting, oh my, exciting for the viewer, exciting for you,

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Speaker 2: exciting for all of us.

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Speaker 5: Well, I don't know how the viewers are going to

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: What I know is exciting for me, and I know

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Speaker 5: that my personally, my personality comes out the ladies' personalities

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Speaker 5: comes out. You know, there's Lamas and there's Rise, and

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Speaker 5: there's there's everything going on. It's it's it's it's a

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Speaker 2: In a kind of our closing minutes here. You know,

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Speaker 2: you have been promoted, and I don't think it's arguable

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Speaker 2: as an extremely handsome bachelor who is ready for love,

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Speaker 2: but your journey to become the Bachelor is unique. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: we didn't get to know a lot about you on

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Speaker 2: The Bachelor apt and then they announced you as the Bachelor,

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Speaker 2: and rumors start to spread that you were no longer

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Speaker 2: the Bachelor. This went all across news networks. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if you're filming at the time, so if you

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Speaker 2: even saw this, but how did you how did that

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Speaker 2: affect you hearing because I'm sure you did of these

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Speaker 2: rumors that you are no longer going to be leading

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Honestly, when I was filming, I didn't even know that.

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Speaker 4: I found out when I came back.

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Speaker 5: So when when I got back and saw those rumors,

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Speaker 5: I was like, well, I mean, don't I don't know

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Speaker 5: what that was about. But when I was filming, I

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Speaker 2: But you know, with every rumor there's always a little

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Speaker 2: sense of truth. So where would did these have even

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Speaker 4: I definitely do.

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Speaker 5: I think I was on Instagram one day and I

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Speaker 5: took a picture and I had a ring on my

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Speaker 5: So I'm somebody who has been through life circumstances as

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Speaker 5: And I think that in life that's something that's really important.

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Speaker 3: I had it. I wanted to when I was a bachelor.

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Speaker 3: You're a stronger man than me. You didn't want to leave.

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Speaker 2: I just wanted to get out of there. You know,

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Speaker 5: that's what I would say that the people people think

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Speaker 3: Yeah, good owning decisions. I love that.

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Speaker 2: The show's about to air, Grant, are you excited for

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that I'm excited, you know, I think

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Speaker 5: that's really all I could That's all I could say,

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Speaker 5: That's all I could ask for, and now it's up

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Speaker 2: Well, I truly hope Grant, this is a season you

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Speaker 2: last question for you, which is everybody's last question probably

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm extremely happy.

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Speaker 5: You know, I'm extremely happy with the way things went,

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Speaker 3: Let's go. Well, the premiere is going to be January

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Speaker 3: twenty seventh on ABC. This has been.

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Speaker 2: Your most recent Bachelor, the one that is going to

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Speaker 2: take over our screens and have a lot of really

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Speaker 2: unbuttoned dressher videos and pictures. Goodness, they love showing that tattoo.

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Speaker 3: Grant.

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Speaker 2: We wish you the best here at the Almost Famous Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Can't wait to talk to you again. Good luck with

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Speaker 4: Thank you, man, I appreciate that.

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